Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia

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Robert Saviano was born in Naples, where he still lives. This is his first book. He is also the author of the novel The Piranhas.

The explosive international bestseller uncovering the crime syndicate that runs the streets of Naples. Gomorrah is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young mans impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization. With a preface to mark the ten year anniversary of publication, Roberto Savianos groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller which has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. A groundbreaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization the Camorra, known by insiders as the System. With a global reach, large stakes in construction, high fashion, illegal drugs and toxic waste disposal, the Camorra exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast. In pursuit of his subject, Roberto Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by the System, and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-old victim, left for dead in the street. Since publishing the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection.

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